The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-06-22
ArrEMprEp MURDER ~ rRENroN.

recently removed from here. He former.
ly lived at Bulls Island Mentally, who
is the cause of the trouble, is Lam
bertville man. He was charged by Sny-
der while the family lived here with un-
due familiarity with Mrs. Snyder. 1t APP
pears that he followed the family to
| Trenton.
At about ten minutes to seven o'clock
Sunday evening the residents of Second
street. in the neighborhood of the
Ossenberg hose house. Trenton, were
startled by two pistol shots, which were
followed with loud screaming by wo
man and several children. In moment
it went from mouth to mouth that o
man had shot his wife and daughter in a
neighboring dwelling, and word was
sent to the police station. A number of
men fastened into the house at No. 14S
Second street, in which it was thought
the shooting had occurred, and they
were informed that the perpetrator Of
the deed was in the yard in the rear OF
the premises. John Geller, Louis
Scheidnagel, Frank Mangen and Thorn
as Tootell ran into the yard and there
came upon johnson Snyder, man of
40. He had smoking pistol in his
hands, and was about scaling fence to
escape from the place by way of Turpin
street. They bore him down and wres-
ted the weapon from him. A great
throng had collected and there were de-
mands that the man be lynched, but
better counsel prevailed, and he was
held safely pending the arrival of Ser
geant Sweeney and several patrol
men.
No. 148 Second street has outside the
appearance of very cosy cottage, but it
is poorly furnished. In small room
on the first floor, where she had been
placed by neighbor, lay Snyder's wife,
groaning and moaning. There was a
wound in her back beneath the left
shoulder, and the oozing blood had dyed
her underclothing and dress.
The neighbors did all they could to
make her comfortable, and in response
to her appeals for air left the street door
standing open. Drs. Kelly and Elmer
Rogers were summoned, and she was
removed to her bedroom for examina-
ton. The physicians probed for the
ball but did not find it, and they were
unable to say then whether the ball was
lodged in her body or not. They
thought it likely that it had struck
bone, and DETECTING passed out again.
At any rate, they said, they did not
consider the wound necessarily fatal.
The Snyders have lived in the house
only week or ten days, having removed
thither from Broad street. They are of
Lambertyille origin, anc quite unknown
to the Second street people. Mr.. and
Mrs. Snyder have lived apart about two
years. One of their daughters, a girl of
seventeen, said she and her younger
sister, the latter about ten years of age,
lived with their mother. Their father
came home to the house Saturday eve
ming and remained all night. On Sun
day, according to the girl, he went out
and returned in an intoxicated condition.
He was quarrelsome and several times
threatened to shoot his wife. They
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him. A man named Frank McNally,
the girl added, had been in the house
part Of the day, but she declared that
the trouble was not on his account.
Snyder was quarreling with his wife in
the yard about half.past six o clock, and
he had his revolver ont then. He put
it back into his pocket, but twenty min
utes later again displayed it. He was
still having words with his wife. They
were now in the alley-way of the house,
and he was pursuing her. 1t was then
that the first shot rang out in the air and
the screaming began. The ten-year-
old girl was with her mother. She fell
down with fright, giving rise to the re-
port that her father had shot her. Mrs.
Snyder ran out of the alley into the
street, and into the alley Of the adjoin-
ing house ON the east. Her husband
pursued her there, and, firing again,
wounded her. Mentally had left before
the shooting commenced.
Snyder was seen by the reporters at
the station house. He seemed still to be
suffering from the effects of liquor He
said that he was employed by Twining,
the quarry owner, at Stockton, and that
year ago he worked in the brickyard
Of Fell Il Roberts. in Trenton. He said
that McNally was a brick maker and had
broken up his family. He has four chill
dren altogether, he said, but did not
make it clear where the other two
were.
Drs. Rogers and Kelly were again at
the house at half-past nine o'clock Sun
day night and spent an hour in examin-
ing Mrs. Snyder and endeayoring to find
the bullet. This was impossible, al
though the probe war inserted the full
ZENITH. DIR. Rogers told Gazette re-
porter That they had left the house with
out being able to give the family any en-
couragement. The ball had entered be-
tween the fth and sixth ribs and lodged
somewhere near the walls of the heart
TRENTON, June 21.-Mrs. Snyder who
was shot by her husband, johnson Sny-
der, at 14S Second street, on Sunday even
inG, was practically in the same condition
last night as she was after the first exam
iuation by the doctors. She expressed
the belief several times yesterday that she
would die, aud 10 that assurance she made